114results about How to "Increase inventory" patented technology

According to some embodiments of the present invention, a system (100), apparatus and method of network operation and information processing, including data acquisition, data processing, data provision, and/or data interoperability features is presented. In some exemplary embodiments, the method includes registering users logging-on to a computer network (170) and gathering user-related information from users (121). In one or more embodiments, user-profile and location-centric information for each user may be gathered and/or processed in connection with processing targeting and content information.

A radio frequency identification (RFID) workstation reader for RFID-enabled surgical instruments and surgical instrument trays and a method of using a RFID workstation reader to read RFID-enabled surgical instruments and surgical instrument trays is disclosed. The method, apparatus, and system enable individual instruments or a surgical instrument tray containing several surgical instruments to be quickly and efficiently inventoried and tracked. An instrument or instrument tray is placed on the workstation reader. An RF field generated by a plurality of antennae, causes RFID tags embedded in or attached to the instrument or instrument tray to emit a signal containing item specific identification information stored in the tags. The information is received by a control circuit and passed to a computer for data analysis. A status LED is illuminated on the workstation reader based on the results of the data analysis. The method, apparatus, and system can track, inspect, and verify inbound and outbound surgical instrument kits, and help to assess the surgical instruments' and trays' duty life cycle usage.

In various embodiments of the present invention, documents (such as PDF documents) are converted into HTML 5 (and CSS 3) formats and integrated into existing HTML 5 web pages in a manner that preserves the original fonts embedded within the documents. The fonts can also be integrated or embedded (e.g., via the standard HTML “iframe” tag) into other web pages. The original appearance of the source document is maintained, the text is preserved as searchable text, and the document is integrated into a web page that can be searched, zoomed, scrolled, printed, etc., utilizing standard web browser controls. As a result, a significantly increased “ad inventory” is enabled, wherein advertisements can be integrated between the individual pages (or even within a page) of the document. In addition, the resulting document (independent of its format) can be passively shared with desired members of a user's external social networks (as well as any social network within the host website), along with other activities and behavior performed by the user on the website hosting the document.

A method and apparatus for automatically identifying the contents of an instrument tray by use of a radio-frequency tag (RFID) is disclosed. The method, apparatus, and system enable the instrument tray to receive an interrogation signal from a reader and to respond to the interrogation signal with a code comprised of its identifying information as well as its contents of radio frequency tagged instruments. Both the instrument tray and/or the reader may be coupled by a proximity electromagnetic field, an inductive coupling, or may be units of a wireless LAN system such as a wireless fidelity local area network. The interrogation signal interrogates the tray to ascertain its contents, and the tray in turn transmits a signal to the reader to inform the reader of its contents. The method, apparatus, and system can track, inspect, and verify inbound and outbound surgical instrument trays and kits, to assess, for example, the surgical instruments' and trays' duty life cycle usage.

A radio frequency identification (RFID) workstation reader for RFID-enabled surgical instruments and surgical instrument trays and a method of using a RFID workstation reader to read RFID-enabled surgical instruments and surgical instrument trays is disclosed. The method, apparatus, and system enable individual instruments or a surgical instrument tray containing several surgical instruments to be quickly and efficiently inventoried and tracked. An instrument or instrument tray is placed on the workstation reader. An RF field generated by a plurality of antennae, causes RFID tags embedded in or attached to the instrument or instrument tray to emit a signal containing item specific identification information stored in the tags. The information is received by a control circuit and passed to a computer for data analysis. A status LED is illuminated on the workstation reader based on the results of the data analysis. The method, apparatus, and system can track, inspect, and verify inbound and outbound surgical instrument kits, and help to assess the surgical instruments' and trays' duty life cycle usage.

A method of detecting, comparing, blocking, and eliminating spam emails sent through email servers of Internet service providers (ISPs) or to email users' email-boxes. The method includes the steps of generating a spam decipher signature for each email in an ISP's mail server or a user's email-box, comparing newly generated spam decipher signatures to a server or user database containing spam decipher signatures of known spam emails to detect spam emails when there is a probability match at a pre-determined high percentage, and preventing the spam emails from going through the ISP's mail server or to the email user as non-spam emails. The method also includes the steps of updating a master spam decipher signature database by comparing spam decipher signatures in a new signature database with existing spam decipher signatures in the master database, incrementing a counter value of a matching spam decipher signature by the number of matches, and adding all new spam decipher signatures that have counter values reaching or exceeding a pre-set threshold and therefore are considered spam to the master spam decipher signature database. The method further includes the steps of initially loading the master spam decipher signature database to the ISP email server or the user's computer to establish the server or user database, and updating the server or user database with the master spam decipher signature database.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, a system, apparatus and method of network operation and information processing, including data acquisition, data processing, data provision, and/or data interoperability features is presented. In some exemplary embodiments, the method includes registering users logging-on to a computer network and gathering user-related information from users. In one or more embodiments, user-profile and location-centric information for each user may be gathered and/or processed in connection with processing targeting and content information.

A bank server allows a user of one ATM to reserve cash at another, nearby ATM when the first ATM has an inadequate cash inventory to serve the user's requested transaction. The user attempts to withdraw cash from the first ATM, but the first ATM has insufficient cash to perform the withdrawal transaction. Through the first ATM, the bank server offers the user a cash reservation at the other ATM. The bank server causes the other ATM to reserve a requested amount of cash for the user, possibly refusing to dispense cash to other users if doing so would leave the other ATM with insufficient cash to dispense the reserved cash. The user travels a short distance to the other ATM and withdraws the reserved cash. In effect, the other ATM can now perform the withdrawal transaction requested of the first ATM when the first ATM couldn't.

The invention relates to a method for publishing an intelligent advertisement, which comprises the following steps: collection of the characteristic information of a user or a special user and the information of an area in which the user is located: inputting a picture or the video of a scene, scanning the picture or the video, recognizing the picture or the video and extracting the characteristic information of the user; comparing the characteristic information of the collected user or the special user with the characteristic information of a prestored user and judging whether the characteristic information of the collected user or the special user is matched with the characteristic information of a prestored user or not; searching for an advertisement in an advertisement resource library, which is matched with the characteristic information of the user; and outputting the advertisement. A system of the invention comprises an intelligent advertisement publishing unit or an array intelligent advertisement publishing unit managed by an integrated control center through an internetwork. The invention detects audiences by introducing technologies of scene scanning, computer image analysis, mode recognition, and the like, extracts the characteristic information to analyze, selects the advertisement which is matched with the characteristics of the audiences and presents the advertisement, thereby improving the effect of publishing the advertisement.

A system and method for realistic speech synthesis which converts text into synthetic human speech with qualities appropriate to the context such as the language and dialect of the speaker, as well as expanding a speaker's phonetic inventory to produce more natural sounding speech.

A method of identifying and selecting welding electrodes and welding output parameters on a welding power source is provided. The method includes identifying electrodes and/or electrode packaging with distinct colors and/or patterns which correspond to properties of the electrode. The method also may include employing distinguishable identifying markings on a power supply which correspond to the electrodes to be used to allow for easy setting of output parameters.

A method for cycle counting warehouse inventory using a drone system with a drone carrying a scanning device and a computer with an RF session receiving cycle count tasks. The drone system is placed within a flight range of the drone to a cycle count location and flown to the cycle count location of the cycle count task. The drone acquires the inventory location data and sends it to a warehouse management system through the RF session. Then the drone acquires the inventory data and sends it to a warehouse management system through the RF session. If prompted by the warehouse management system, further data are acquiring such as SKU data, LPN attribute information, and/or quantity information.

Systems and methods are disclosed for facilitating data processing workflow. The systems and methods may provide a first representation of data relevant to a first aspect of a participant's participation in an enterprise, receive input from the participant interacting with the data (the participant's interaction changing the first representation), conceal the first representation, provide a second representation of data, and subsequently provide the first representation including the changes from the participant's interaction. The first representation and the second representation may be provided in a portion of a portal workspace.

The present invention provides a method, a system, and a computer-readable medium with instructions for a computer to optimize one or more tradeoffs between or among serviceability, liability, and/or inventory in a multi-tier network of suppliers. The probabilistic optimization of tradeoffs enables assets stored at one or a plurality of tiers in the network to be optimally transferred downstream with certain probabilities. The multi-tier network of suppliers may consist of at least one original equipment manufacturer tier and at least one supplier tier.

In accordance with the present invention, a method, system, and program for controlling the replenishment process in the manufacturing process by maintaining a common database is disclosed. The present invention connects the acquiring entity, supplier, and the replenishment service center (“RSC”) to efficiently coordinate the replenishment process using the days of supply at the RSC as the key benchmark. By allowing access to the common database, the acquiring entity, supplier, and RSC can view and update changes in the replenishment process in real time increasing the communication and efficiency of delivering components to manufacture a product. In addition, the present invention facilitates the ability for the invoice process to be conducted electronically over the computer network.

A nozzle assembly for generating fluid jets, such as self-spinning fluid jets. A nozzle body includes a cylindrical nozzle cavity, an inlet, an outlet, and a tubular nozzle rotor assembly positioned with respect to the nozzle cavity. The nozzle rotor assembly can have a ball end and a tubular end and a central fluid passage routed through the nozzle rotor assembly. A fluid swirl enhancer forms communication with the inlet. A replaceable nozzle seat forms communication with the ball end of the nozzle rotor assembly and with the outlet. The ball end of the nozzle rotor assembly pivots, oscillates and rotates against the nozzle seat when pressurized fluid flows through the nozzle assembly.